The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-21
DEMOCRATS AT A DEADLOCK.
TIE CONFERENCES ON A UNION TICKET
ADJOURN OYER NI0HE

THE CONFERENCES ON n UNION TICKET
ADJOURN OYER NIGHT
Mr.. MARITIME Urged to Kun for District At
torney and Settle It-An Other Details
in Course OF Harmonisus Arrangement.
Unless the Tammany Hall and County
Democracy conference committee agree this
morning on q united Democracy ticket. the
two County Conventions that were adjourned
until this evening will DO postponed again.
and Tammany men say that It is possible that
there may DO no union after all. Tammany
Hall has formally refusedto have union that
includes Tammany Hall unless Tammany's
demands and provisos are compiled with.
Chief OF these demands was that Assist
ant District Attorney Fitzgerald should not be
nominated for District Attorney. Police
Justice Power, who is the leader OF the County
Democracy. and whose conference COM
mlttee agrees with him, was equally insistent
that Fitzgerald should be nominated. The do
mand Of Tammany that he should be with
drawn caused q deadlock at the meeting OF the
conference subcommittee yesterday. They
we're In session at the Westminster Hotel from
after noon to II o'clock at night, and adjourned
with the announcement that nothing had been
agreed on. but that they would meet again this
morning at half past Ii. and try to agree. and
prevent the necessity of further adjournment
Of the two Conventions.
To settle the difficulty and release the dead
lock, messengers were repeatedly sent to Dis
trict Attorney MARITIME during the day and
night asking him to reconsider his preference
for the additional Criminal Court Judgeship
and to run for District Attorney again. He re-
Piled that he would prefer to be Judge, and did
not want another term as District Attorney.
There were conferences with him at which he
continued to express this preference Efforts
will be renewed to-day to have Mr.. MARITIME ac-
cept. II he declines, one Of the two factions
must yield or compromise candidate must be
chosen. Otherwise there will be no union.
Several Tammany men say that they would
not be sorry to have the union abandoned.
The leaders have been talking over the matter.
They believe that the Labor vote will be
smaller than last year. that many Republicans
will vote q good Democratic local ticket, and
that square fight on their own ticket would
be better than q union or an unsatisfactory
ticket. Still they are pledged to a union. and
they will try to carry out that pledge.
Pursuant to agreement, the two sub-com-
mittees met at the Westminster Hotel in the
afternoon. They were to have begun their
session at IL o'clock. but they chatted awhile
and ate dinner before thcy began. while mes
sengers were running oil over town to and
from the Mayor, ex-Mayor Grace. District At
torney MARITIME, and others. trying to arrange
matters, The two sub-conference committees
were compared as follows:
Tammany-Fre Commissioner Croker, Sheriff Hugh ].
Grant County Clerk James A. Flack Register j. J. se
vim Congressman Bourks Cochran, Police Justice Chas.
Welde, and ex- Alderman James Barker.
County Democracy-Polico Justice Maurice J. Power,
Police Justice Andrew j. White Police Justice William
pH1 naNta Al tRat Dol rnr
sioner John r. voorhs, Congressman Timothy j. Camp
bell and ex Excise Commissioner William P. Mitchell
All the floating statesmen in town dropped
into the Westminster Hotel during the day to
ind out how the subcommittee were going to
ellSt the Offices. During the afternoon session
Chairman Murphy of the Democratic State
Committee and ex-Treasurer r. A. Maxwell.
the present Superintendent Of Insurance,
dropped In. They said 1t was on purely per-
sonal errand and had nothing to do with local
politics. 1t was gossip that they came
County DEMOCRACY Of Tammsnys demands,
but both Mr.. MlAphy and Mr.. Maxwell denied
IN the committee. Justice, Power proposed
nd for pst At.
as sR accept e ihss S
They ala not insist On Nicoll, but conceded the
The proposition for a union basis began to
assume this shape; Each faction was to take
Justice. Tammany was to have the Surrogate,
the President of the Board OF Aldermen, and
Gouny Would eoncede That thes
t t District Attorney and the Co coroner.
tho q Of s1
give Tammany the Coroner. while Judge Pow;
or n The e sas
sddltional Criminal Court judges and The Dis.
Attorney could be straightened Il was seen that
the appointment of Offices could not be de-
III was settled without much difficulty that
the allotment OF Assemblymen and Aldermen
between the. two organizations should be re-
Fth ahd seventh Senate dstricts should 90
f. the County Democracy. and the Sixth and
likely 10 60 % to Tammany and the Ninth to the
County Democracy. AS this was generally I'M
derstood before it did not require much hgur-
cratic Club. the Harlem Democratic Club. the
tho German Independent Citizens Association
% the 70
Graybi of the pemoeratie Clubs addressed
bstrIct Attorpey MARITIME for additional Grimi-
torney NioolI for District Attorney.
=, The German associations announced that
troller and wanted W. r. Pltschke to have one
q the nominations for City Court Justice,
William Steinway Edward Uhl, and Paul
the name of the German citizens. |
Judge Power sent messengers to Mayor |
Hewitt to help him out, and 1t was reported |
that the Mayor had come out In favor OF Fitz- |
gerald. This report came from County De- |
mo- d
ten endorsement. though It was rumored that
one was in existence.
One OF the most significant OF the many con-
ierences of tho day was held In a private room |
In steinway Hail. on, East Fourteenth street
near Tammany Hall. between the German
representatives and x-Nlayor Grace and en-
Mayor Cooper. who had been sent for, and
Croker and Power, who represented the sub
At that conference ex-MSyor Grace made
t tIwn his opposition to the, renomlna;